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# darty.com

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## Website

darty.com

Darty Limited darty.com

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:22 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 88 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

88 / 100

High truth signals

Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked

## Business details

Category: Department store

Years in business: 25 years

Founded: 1957

Owned by: Fnac Darty

Sells: Physical goods

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 29 years

Address: [4th Floor Phoenix House, 1 Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1NB, United Kingdom](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=4th%20Floor%20Phoenix%20House%2C%201%20Station%20Hill%2C%20Reading%2C%20Berkshire%2C%20RG1%201NB%2C%20United%20Kingdom)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: Not found

Contact page: Not found

Website: [darty.com](https://darty.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/darty/) [X.com](https://x.com/Darty_Officiel) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/darty/)

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could read We looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.darty.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is darty.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 88 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 public checks clear, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

darty.com is run by Darty Limited, part of Fnac Darty, an active UK company registered at Companies House 25 years ago, and was founded in 1957. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating, an email address or a phone number.

### Positives

- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
- It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.darty.com).
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Not found

- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### How to check if darty.com is legit

To check if darty.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about darty.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 25 years ago

- Its registered office at Companies House is 4th Floor Phoenix House, 1 Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1NB, United Kingdom
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months

Country

Where the company is based: UK

Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as DARTY LIMITED

VAT number: Not found

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes

Registered company name: DARTY LIMITED

Company status: active

Company age: 25 years

Registered address: 4th Floor Phoenix House, 1 Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1NB, United Kingdom

Accounts overdue: No

Confirmation statement overdue: No

Insolvency history: No

Registered office in dispute: No

Filing history consistent: Yes

Registered to do: 70100 Activities of head offices

Previous names: DARTY PLC (31 Jul 2012 to 10 Jan 2017)
KESA ELECTRICALS PLC (10 Jun 2003 to 31 Jul 2012)
KESA ELECTRICALS LIMITED (16 Apr 2003 to 10 Jun 2003)
FERRYWALK LIMITED (11 Jun 2001 to 16 Apr 2003)

Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Full accounts The most detailed kind a company files.

Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikidata

Type (Wikipedia): société par actions simplifiée

Parent company: Fnac Darty

Founded: 1957

Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04232413)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 29 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 29 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=darty.com)

Website details Found: https enabled, hosting company

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: Not found

Contact page found: Not found

Hosting company: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Search engines and AI Blocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All blocked

Google Search: Blocked by its bot protection Googlebot

Bing: Blocked by its bot protection Bingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protection GPTBot

Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protection ClaudeBot

Google AI: Blocked by its bot protection Google-Extended

Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protection Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protection CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its bot protection meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protection Bytespider

AI answers

All blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protection OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protection ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-User

Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protection PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://darty.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.darty.com)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.darty.com) · Unknown · Unknown

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 5,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: top 50,000 to top 5,000 by 2026-05

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up darty.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 Germany 31.5%
- 2 France 17.4%
- 3 United States 10.4%
- 4 Singapore 9.0%
- 5 Brazil 5.7%
- 6 United Kingdom 1.9%
- 7 Netherlands 1.7%
- 8 Argentina 1.5%
- 9 Mexico 1.3%
- 10 Canada 1.1%

Top 10 of 80 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/darty.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago

Website archive history: 27 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19981212/darty.com)

Social presence It is on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn and X.com); the largest audience is 529,750 followers on Facebook

Found · Platform · Audience

Found by Truth Signal · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/darty/) · 529,750 followers

Not found · Instagram

Found by Truth Signal · [X.com](https://x.com/Darty_Officiel) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/darty/) · 51,184 followers

Not found · YouTube

Not found · TikTok

· · 580,934 followers total

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Sectigo Limited

Certificate type: OV

Certificate expires: 5 Feb 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: a1-131.akam.net
a12-66.akam.net
a13-67.akam.net
a14-64.akam.net
a24-65.akam.net
a9-66.akam.net

Address: 184.26.55.212
184.26.55.216

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=darty.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source darty.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source darty.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 88, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/darty.com/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, Darty Limited: truth score 88 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/darty.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/darty.com.json
